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  • 1.  HTML Email in AIX2.7 environment

    Posted 01/21/25 10:59 AM

    Hi - We have a AIX 2.7 environment in which we wanted to send HTML emails so that the emails can have tables and styles as per customer needs. We are using SendMail tool to send the email which is working for a plan text email. Can anyone advice if HTML formatting is possible with AIX2.7 environment? 



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    Hasarin Fareeth Noor Mohamed
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  • 2.  RE: HTML Email in AIX2.7 environment

    Posted 01/21/25 06:53 PM

    I assume that you mean AIX 7.2 ??

    You can send HTML emails using sendmail, but it may depend how your email has been configured. 

    There are different ways to do this, but here is a test script that works for me.

    It uses old school HTML, but don't judge me!

    TMP_MAILFILE=/tmp/myfile

    MAILTO=<email_address_here>
    REPLY=<email_address_here>
    FROM=<email_address_here>
    SUBJECT="Test Email"

    echo "Reply-To: ${REPLY}" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "From: ${FROM}" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "Subject: $SUBJECT" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "MIME-Version: 1.0" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "Content-Type: text/html" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "Content-Disposition: inline" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}

    echo "<HTML>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}

    echo "<HEAD>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<style type='text/css'>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "body" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "{" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "font-family:'Arial';" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "font-size:10pt;" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "}" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "</HEAD>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}

    echo "<BODY>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}

    echo "An HTML Email<BR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<BR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "Some text" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<BR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<BR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}

    echo "<TABLE BORDER=1 BGCOLOR=Cornsilk>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<TR><TH COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=SkyBlue>My HTML Table</TH></TR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<TR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<TH WIDTH=100 ALIGN=LEFT BGCOLOR=PowderBlue>Column 1</TH>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<TH WIDTH=80 ALIGN=LEFT BGCOLOR=PowderBlue>Column 2</TH>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "</TR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<TR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<TD ALIGN=LEFT>Val 1.1</TD>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<TD ALIGN=LEFT>Val 1.2</TD>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "</TR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<TR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<TD ALIGN=LEFT>Val 2.1</TD>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<TD ALIGN=LEFT>Val 2.2</TD>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "</TR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "</TABLE>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}
    echo "<BR>" >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}

    echo '</BODY></HTML>' >> ${TMP_MAILFILE}

    echo "Sending email..."
    cat ${TMP_MAILFILE} | /usr/sbin/sendmail -f ${FROM} ${MAILTO}



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    Mike Walker
    xDB Systems, Inc
    www.xdbsystems.com
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